Heather Stewart

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438 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 11 Sep

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Today in Focus · Ed Stone to elder statesman: the making of Ed Miliband · 11 Sep 2026 podcast

It seems that he, and I suppose Burnham, wants to dial up the importance of climate diplomacy as part of what we do in reaching out to other countries.

And, you know, looking for sort of collective action on things.

It also seems that he wants to make international development more important.

There was a separate Secretary of State for International Development, Claire Shaw, who was a really powerful minister and Labour, made that a sort of

moral crusade really under Gordon Brown.

It got completely slashed under Starmer.

Here Starmer's government slashed international aid and like and I'm not suggesting that suddenly under Andy Berman and Ed Miliban that's going to be reversed, but I think there is an intention to put some more emphasis on that.

And that's a a big strand of Labour's kind of historic sort of base and and Labour politics.

And you know, so that's another part of it, I think.

As I mentioned before, he was certainly dovish when it came to the bombing of Syria, and he's since said I think that he doesn't regret that.

And in fact he was opposed to the Iraq war as well.

Yeah.

You know, Tony Blair's government deciding to go to join the US war in Iraq was a really sort of defining moment for that government.

Um, you know, minis senior ministers resigned over it and it and, you know, they lost support in the party over it and so on.

So that would have been

you know, one of those moments that that Ed Miliband will remember very, very clearly, I think.

I mean I certainly think he would be very cautious about arguing to take the UK into war.

But

Well, it's interesting because when he was doing a lot of his you know, the all the podcasting and the book writing and the whatever, a lot of it is about domestic policy.

I mean, this is why he seemed like such a natural fit for Chancellor, 'cause a lot of it was about economic policy.

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